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There are major CEOs who do not know how to hold a knife and fork properly, but I don't worry about that as much as the lack of kindness.
- Letitia Baldrige
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When in doubt, look at what everyone else is doing.
- Letitia Baldrige
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#When In Doubt
Chivalry isn't dead. It's just no longer gender-based.
- Letitia Baldrige
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#Just
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Nothing gets on other people's nerves at the office more than a whistler. And the sad part is, these whistlers don't know they're doing it. Someone should, tactfully, tell the whistler how much it disrupts the office environment.
- Letitia Baldrige
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#Nothing
#People
#Sad
What the bride should do is call guests who have young children and say: 'I'd love to have the kids at the wedding, but we won't have room. Would you get a baby sitter, and when we get back from our honeymoon, we'll have you guys over?'
- Letitia Baldrige
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Make people have a smile when they finish your e-mail.
- Letitia Baldrige
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#Make
#People
#Smile
#Your
At home, we're listening to TV or playing with our computers, so our entertaining is rusting. We don't know how to be good hosts and guests in business situations.
- Letitia Baldrige
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#Computers
#Good
#Home
#Know
An excellent wine, someone's best attempt at cooking, and the candles and flowers on the table can turn the simplest dinner into an unforgettably romantic event.
- Letitia Baldrige
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#Cooking
#Dinner
#Flowers
#Romantic
For every step forward in electronic communications, we've taken two steps back in humanity. People know how to use a computer and answering machines but have forgotten how to connect with one another. Our society is unraveling. We're too self-obsessed.
- Letitia Baldrige
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#Humanity
#People
#Society
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It's stylish to have people over. But unstylish to make them bring food. It's so tacky, making everybody appear at the door with a dish. Better to order in, use a caterer or bring prepared food into your kitchen.
- Letitia Baldrige
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#Door
#Food
#Kitchen
#Stylish
I'm for anything that teaches consideration and kindness. If one can teach one's son to dance with the ugliest little girl in the room, that's the best lesson they can ever learn.
- Letitia Baldrige
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#Dance
#Kindness
#Lesson
#Room
Business colleagues who have not seen each other for a long time but who have a good relationship can always shake hands warmly and grab each other's right upper arm or shoulder with their free left hand. Men and women executives should not kiss each other in public.
- Letitia Baldrige
#Business
#Good
#Men
#Relationship
#Time
I saw an e-mail from one guy who's about 23 to one of peers. His parting sign-off was 'Don't let the bedbugs bite.' Now that's really poetic.
- Letitia Baldrige
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#Bite
#Now
#Parting
#Peers
If you really screw up, send roses.
- Letitia Baldrige
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#Roses
#Screw
#Send
#Up
Arranging an official dinner in an embassy is a little like writing a script for a play. The prolog is the guest list, often the most difficult part of the whole creative operation.
- Letitia Baldrige
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#Dinner
#Little
#Play
#Writing
The best thing we can do to save the planet is set a good example for our kids at home.
- Letitia Baldrige
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#Good
#Home
#Planet
#Save
If golfers know they look good, they will play better. I think that is valid for men and women.
- Letitia Baldrige
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#Good
#Look
#Men
#Women
Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind; intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.
- Letitia Baldrige
#Be Kind
#Intelligence
#Learn
#Politeness
If you are someone's guest on a corporate jet, the most important thing to remember is not just to be on time, but to be early. If you hold up the departure of the jet by as much as 10 minutes, you may cause the plane to wait in line for another hour or two before obtaining new clearance.
- Letitia Baldrige
#Important
#New
#Remember
#Time
#Wait
Go to any bookstore, and you'll see thousands of books on etiquette, which suggests there's a lot of self-help going on. There is hope.
- Letitia Baldrige
#Bookstore
#Etiquette
#Go
#Going
#Hope
#See
Good manners are cost effective. They not only increase the quality of life in the workplace, they contribute to employee morale, embellish the company image, and play a major role in generating profit.
- Letitia Baldrige
#Good Manners
#Good
#Image
#Life
#Quality
Going to a party uninvited always has been a negative action. It never has been acceptable. At the very least, it upsets kitchen preparations, parking arrangements, and even details such as space for hanging coats and depositing dripping umbrellas.
- Letitia Baldrige
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#Details
#Negative
#Never
#Space
Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.
- Letitia Baldrige
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#Chance
#Slow
#Surroundings
#Tea
#Time
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